“Teens enter haunted mansion, face blue monster Ao Oni, solve puzzles, and die horribly in failed escape attempts.”
Aooni The Blue Monster
あおおに ~じ・あにめぇしょん~
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Synopsis
Teens enter haunted mansion, face blue monster Ao Oni, solve puzzles, and die horribly in failed escape attempts.
In most ordinary high schools, many stories and rumors float around—some scandalous, some happy and some...more macabre. One such example is of monsters lurking in an abandoned mansion outside of town. Such tales, however, prove too tempting to resist for Hiroshi and his friends Mika, Takeshi, and Takurou. They decide to brave the rumored dangers in order to investigate the manor and complete a test of courage. Each of them approaches the mansion with an overwhelming sense of dread. And when they enter, they come upon a blue monster named Ao Oni who attacks them. As Hiroshi and his friends try to solve the various puzzles in the mansion and escape their new blue nemesis, they find themselves meeting several horrible endings as they fail miserably.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 17 sampled reviews
What 17 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.45 · split reception
6.0 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 2.7
↓ 3.00
Running avg · Oct 2016 → Dec 2023
- 7 “Ao Oni The Animation perfectly captures the franchise's burlesque quality with genuine love and appreciation, delivering a short, silly anime that's ideal for both Ao Oni fans and sh*tpost...”
- 8 “These 3-minute Pop Team Epic-style shorts deliver hilarious comedy with well-executed YouTube-style animation that's genuinely fun to watch. However, the humor is heavily targeted toward Japanese...”
- 10 “I'm kinda disheartened by the overall low scores for this otherwise genius masterwork of comedic fiction. Now I do an extent of ignorance towards the sorce material but from the sounds of it, they...”
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- Format 13 × 3′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 39m all episodes
- Aired Oct 2016 – Jan 2017 Fall 2016
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-11705 catalog
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- DAX Production Producer